Tony Benn dies: the pizza-loving Labour stalwart

Tony Benn would drink tea from massive mugs, claiming once that he drank one
pint of tea every hour.

Tony Benn was renowned as a prodigious tea-drinkerPhoto: Clare Kendall

By Agencies

7:47AM GMT 14 Mar 2014

Tony Benn was renowned as a prodigious tea-drinker. But he had another passion: The triple cheese pizza.

He was so attached to this delicacy that he was positively distraught when he went shopping one day to find that this item had disappeared from his local supermarket.

"I went in search of them because I have eaten two of them every day for years," he said.

The brand which Benn was reported to relish was the Chicago Town Deep Dish Triple Cheese Pizza. This used to retail at £1.65 for two people and contained, according to the Food Standards Agency, a "healthy" 30% of a person's recommended daily fat intake.

Benn would drink tea from massive mugs, claiming once that he drank one pint of tea every hour.